Black Americans were permitted to serve in the Union Army for the first time, and nearly 200,000 would do so by the end of the war. the Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the permanent abolition of slavery in the United States
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Many people in California figured gold was there, but it was James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848, who saw something shiny in Sutter Creek near Coloma, California. He had discovered gold unexpectedly while overseeing construction of a sawmill on the American River.
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